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No. 299,731 PatentedJune 3, 1884.

UNrTE rETEE BEo'rHE EHooD, or LAMBETH, COUNTY or SURREY, ENGLAND.

MULTIPLEFCYLIINDER ENGlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,731, dated June 3, 1884.

Application-filed November 24, 1883. (N model.) Patentedin England May 18, 1883, No. 2,494.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER BRoTHERHooD,

a citizen of England, residing at Lambeth, in

the county of Surrey, .Engla1id, havcinvented an Improvement in Multiple Cylinder Eugines, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 2,494, dated May 18, 1883,)

of which the following is a specification.

In the specification to Letters Patent No. 28 1372, dated September 4, 1883, Idescribed an improvement in multiple-cylinder engines,

referring to drawings annexed to. the said specification, showing a three-cylinder engine embodying my improvement.

My present invention consists in certain modifications in such engines, whereby I am section. Figs. 2 and3 are vertical transverse sections, respectively, onthe lines X X and Y Y of Fig. 1; and Fig. at is aside elevation.

A is the central cavity, into which the cylinders successively discharge their exhaust,

which passes away by the exhaust-pipe a.

B B is the engine-shaft, with crank O, balanced by eccentric weights 0 G, secured in position by setting screws on the checks of the cranks, which are turned circular for their reception. On abush, O fitted on the crank O, bear the segmentalren'ds of the three connecting-rods D, which are held to it by rings (1, divided in halves bolted together. At the side of each of the cylinders F is the cylindrical slide-easel}, communicating with the cylinder by a short port, 5 and opening at its inner end into .the central cavity, A. The middle part of the slide'case receives supply of the steam or other working fluid by a passage, h, from an annular cavity, H, to which will presently be described. The cylindrical tubular slide-valve K has its inner part larger than its outer part, so that there is always an excess of pressure on the slide inward; As this form of slide, if the case were bored to fit it, could'only be removed from its case by drawing it inward, which would involve great trouble and inconvenience, I bore the outer ends of the slide-cases G larger than their inner ends, and fit them with linings G, which are lips projecting from the covers, and thus, by removing a cover with the lining G belonging to it, I can withdraw the slide K outward. Each of the slides K is'worked by a connecting-rod, it, which has a T-shaped segmental end, with the flanges of the T engaged in grooves in two eccentric sheaves, L, which are bolted together face to face, and fitted on a trunnion formed on the exterior of the bearings for the shaft 13. A pin, Z, entering a slotted hole in the crank of the main shaft, is

a driver for the eccentrics. As the slides K are always pressed toward the eccentric, their rods I: are always under thrust-strain, and therefore there is no noise or shock, such as would result at quick speed-if'the strain were alternately tensive and compressive. The regulatingwalve h is fitted to slide within a casing, which is caused to. revolve with the shaft 13' by a coupling giving a little freedom of end motion. To this rotating casing are hinged the two governor-weights M M, which are formed as bell-crank'levers, their arms engaged in a slot in the stem of the valve h, which stem is pressed inward by a rod sub ject to the strain of an adjustable spring, N.

\Vhen the centrifugal force of the weights M is sufficient to overcome the pressure of the spring N, the valve h is moved toward the right, closingmore or less the passage to the space H from the cavity H, which is supplied with the working fluid by the lateral pipe 7L2.

The eye d, by which each connecting-rod D is. jointed to the piston E, is made tubular, with a slot through'it, which, at a certain part of the stroke, is made to coincide with a slot, 6, through the piston, for the purpose of permitting escape of exhaust, and so relieving back-pressure on the piston, as explained in my patent SpecificatiouNo. 2Si,372.

As the engine whiehI have herein described corresponds in its general features and also 1 B of said shaft, and forming a trunnion with in some of its details with that described in the previous specification No. 284,372, it is to be understood that I make no claim in respect of those features or details; but

I claim only as my present invention-- 1. The combination of the doublesheaves L, having a "l"-shaped eccentric groove for the end of the valve-rod 7:,with a trunnion east on one of the casing-heads, forming also an end bearing for the end B of the crank-shalt, all arranged substantially 'as described.

2. The combination ofthc double sheaves L, having T-shaped eccentric groove forthe end ofthe valve-rod 7;,with a trunnion casten one of the casing-heads, forming an end bearing for the end 13 of the crank-shaft, and said sheaves operated by a pin, Z, secured to the crank, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the crank-shaft of the engine, having an end bearing for the part the double sheaves L,'provided with a T- shaped eccentric groove, and operated by apin, Z, secured in the crank, as specified.

i In combination with an engine having radiating cylinders, a bearing on one of the casing-heads for the end B of the crank-shaft, serving,with its outer surface, as a trunnion, upon which the eccentrics or sheaves for operating the valves are mounted, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 1st day of November, A. D. 1883.

PETER BROTHER I I00] \Vitnesses:

Join DEAN, J. /Zi'rr, Both of 17 Gracccimrclt Street, London. 

